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Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Zittrain, David Faber, Guido Scorza
Inspired by some tech bro saying their algorithm found this writing so awful it couldn't process it. I decided to have a read. It's wonderful. Well written and interesting.
What's more. It made me think about door knobs and handles. Everywhere I've ever lived has had handles. To the point I've always thought lever style door handles were the norm. Door knobs are rare. So rare, that at a friend's house recently. I couldn't work out how to open the front door...
More notable reporting on the flood tragedy in Texas, this time in Wired. (Thanks to @macosken for pointing me there.) Wired spoke to meteorologists Chris Vagasky and Matt Lanza.
Wired reports:
Meteorologists say that the NWS did send out adequate warnings as it got updated information. By Thursday afternoon, it had issued a flood watch for the area, and a flash flood warning was in effect by 1am Friday. The agency had issued a flash flood emergency alert by 4:30am.
“The Weather Service was on the ball,” Vagasky says. “They were getting the message out.”
But as local outlet KXAN first reported, it appears that the first flood warnings posted from safety officials to the public were sent out on Facebook at 5am, hours after the NWS issued its warning.
“Clearly there was a breakdown between when the warning was issued and how people got it, and I think that’s really what has to be talked about,” Lanza says.
https://www.wired.com/story/meteorologists-say-the-national-weather-service-did-its-job-in-texas/ or https://archive.vn/jSGWZ
Two recent statements from the surveillance company—one addressing Illinois privacy violations and another defending the company's national surveillance network—reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock Safety has blamed users, downplayed harms, and doubled...
Timelapse view of the July 2025 flash flood that swelled the Guadalupe River
This timelapse shows the Guadalupe River during the July 4th, 2025 flash flood that caused immense damage and many fatalities, including at Camp Mystic.
‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding
"As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers," CNN reports.
"As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers," CNN reports.
@democratsabroad
Sure. Will you promise to work to bring down skyrocketing inequality from where the last 3 Democrat administrations put it? Say, to where it was after the first Bush administration?And present a coherent program explaining how you are gonna do it, and actually implement it?
Be sure that if you do that, millions of people will come join you. Otherwise only millionaires and billionaires.
The red ellipse shows what is expected from you.
"Not Alligator Alcatraz. Alcatraz held people who had been convicted in a court of law.
This is Alligator Auschwitz, which will hold people who are not charged with anything other than the crime of being brown, just like Auschwitz held those for the crime of being a Jew."
-Керрі Світ
https://bsky.app/profile/carriesweet.bsky.social/post/3lsragabzhs2f
#Trump #GOP #Republicans #AlligatorAlcatraz #AlligatorAuschwitz #ConcentrationCamps #Fascism #USPol #Politics #Florida #US #USA
@ZhiZhu @rbreich I beg to differ. Auschwitz was an institution of industrial mass murder. Entire trainloads of people (that's 1000+ humans in case "trainloads" sounds too abstract) were killed immediately after arrival in purpose-built facilities. And it was one site in a grand scheme of genocide.
Trump is evil. Alligator Alcatraz must not be. But it is not Auschwitz.
@passwordsarehard4 @Hinz_oder_Kunz @rbreich
Nazi #ConcentrationCamps were originally referred to as "deportation" camps, where Jewish people would be held prior to being deported. But actually deporting Jewish people turned out to be slower and more expensive than other options. So... The #Nazis turned to the "Final Solution" which was much more "efficient."
The first US Concentration Camp - #AlligatorAuschwitz - in #Florida will cost $450 million per year to operate. So…
@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich
Auschwitz was established in 1939, almost immediately after the German invasion of Poland. It was used to imprison people immediately: initially former Polish soldiers. They didn't start the mass executions until almost two years later, in August 1941 after the invasion of the USSR.
Auschwitz was still Auschwitz for those two years before the mass murders began. Before it was a factory for killing people, it was a prison.
Calling a prison Auschwitz isn't historically inaccurate. It just means that the mass murders haven't started yet.
@passenger @Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich
hmmm no. Auschwitz was established in 1939 as a concentration camps.
The purpose of a concentration camp is to kill people through labor.
It was not a prison.
@rbreich The branding is right there, folks. Not Alligator Alcatraz—Alligator Auschwitz.
A failure of imagination with these folks will always have on our back foot.
Men like Stephen Miller are directly profiting from this mass deportation campaign. So a private prison and private transportation sector.
@LeelaTorres
@broadwaybabyto
It took just over a week to create a massive
concentration camp.
Remember this the next time those in power
claim they can't house the homeless, feed the
starving or provide medical care to the poor.
= =
They can, they don't want to.
RFK jr was chatting up health camps for people with the moral deficiency of drug addiction or gender dysphoria.
@Cassandra
Pretty sure this Robert Reich person / bot doesn't care. I've never seen it interact at all, just post screen shots of its Bluesky account or some other stolen posts.
I think there must be multiples, because I seem to keep blocking this.
@GLaDTheresCake @Cassandra @xinit
His website links to a linktree, which links to all his socials, including Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. His website also links directly to a few profiles (Mastodon not included). Not linking directly means that any Mastodon profile verification won't work.
Funnily enough, some of his recent posts are posted on Threads and Bluesky as plain text, and posted here as images.
That last bit's the part that really confuses me. Wouldn't it be easier for the human or bot behind the posting to ... just post the text again rather than taking a screenshot and posting that?
@rbreich It's a concentration camp. They won't be feeding anyone; at least not food they can or should actually eat. They'll also be using them for forced labor, and people are going to die there due to starvation, disease, and lack of proper sanitation, or even direct maltreatment.
That's hardly the same as "housing the homeless." At least not properly. Of course, there are always the prisons, the workhouses, and all other horrors funded by Gulag Scrooge.
Poverty is arranged. Poverty is built. Poverty is enforced.
Poverty is a shameful crime of the wealthy.
@rbreich
Although it is very obvious, that concentration camps are neither "housing" nor do they provide food better than calories or anything which might resemble medical treatment.
Only thing this proves is, that they are willing to spend lots of money to make lives worse.
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